"Players who already like the way things are can feel at ease..."

[Carin-Eri]

Nobody knows you and nobody cares if you enjoy or not the game.

The point of this post is they making a game specifically for one type of gamer, as an MMO, which is pretty bad.
This genre is well known for fitting every type of players, not only casuals. So it is surprising and wrong to read that apparently statement from FFXIV devs.

Not entirely sure where I said anything to the tone of "people know me and I enjoy/don't enjoy the game". I didn't state where I stand on the matter.

I simply don't think it's necessarily wrong for anyone who is content with the way things are to feel that way.

And interestingly, I've certainly seen arguments to the contrary of your claim - that the game isn't casual friendly. So I guess it really comes down to which side of the fence you're on.

[Cidel]

What about the players who liked astrologian's original card system that featured a variety of random buffs?

I was just thinking about how much I enjoyed HW-SB AST when I got an Orbonne Monastery for Alliance Roulette.

[Valence]

All that's telling me is that things aren't going to change at the core, and that's enough to tell me that I won't be satisfied with the direction the game has been going toward, because I'll still be left with vapid action game DDR, rote memorization, fights that get harder and harder and no room for any actual RPG battlesystem whatsoever.

I hope they'll realize that the original players the game attracted were specifically attracted to the game for a model that is NOT compatible with what we're being served right now. If people that are happy with what they currently have will continue to be happy, then I'm afraid I won't be able to be happy myself. There is no in between there. We're not the same audience.

Sorry if that sounds harsh but that's the ugly truth of it.

[Moqi]

I am also at ease knowing I will be in no rush to come back to this game for the next 4-5 years.

[ASkellington]

I kinda feel like you just keep moving the goalpost. What you are saying makes sense but it just seems unrealistic. Instead of offering two ways to play a job, you want a job to be only your way plus specializations on top of that. That isn't fair. Casuals deserve their option. If there was a current BLM vs "harder" BLM option I would be fine with that. Maybe I am misunderstanding you but your expectations seem too high. Its possible they could rework AST into something you can tolerate but you wouldn't be ok with it because it has more potential that completely disregards players who enjoy what they have.

And I say that as someone who desperately misses old BLM even with the timer.

Goal post was always the same, just didn't bring up the healing issues with AST.

And frankly, the classes that people have now were built upon the destruction of what people liked about the class. There's nothing wrong with asking for a reversion back to what we once had. And talent trees aren't giving that.

Fact is, given what we've seen this expansion the dev team has proven that, no, they aren't going to fix the classes like people like me want them to. They aren't going to add back skill interplay, they aren't going to add in party interplay, they aren't going to fix the issues with tanks/healers because to do so would disrupt what people currently like at the expense of people who don't. They can't even properly do more than speed up mechanics.

Nothing about the line "players who already like the way things are" brings any confidence or hope that things will change for the people who don't.

[Exmo]

- "Players who like waffles will continue to get waffles. Players who like pancakes will soon get pancakes."

-"But what if I don't like waffles >:[ "

We've nothing to go off right now. I'm sceptical too but let's save the rage for when we have something concrete.

[Renaclock]

Yoshi is sayin "Big changes" is coming to jobs to make them more unique in the exact same interview.
Chances are the nuance was lost in translation like it usually does....

[Carin-Eri]

I nowhere said the game isn't casual friendly, I said there's actual harder content everyone can play like Deep Dungeon, Eureka, Bozja. Doesn't change the fact, in terms of gameplay, it is extremely casual. Which is the point of this post. And no one said it is wrong for anyone to enjoy the game as it is right now, but you came out as you were targeted hiding behind some white knight attitude, while nobody is despising casuals, that is all.

EDIT : I also made an entire thread about how boring jobs are, which you can find here : https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...our-job%28s%29

Not really. I just think it's a classic case of 'can't please everyone'.

[TeresaFortell]

The answer to your questions are fairly simple: they don't care.

They don't care about the playerbase they fostered with original class designs and then shunned expansion after expanion.
They don't care, specifically Yoshi P, that you strang so many people along hoping for a REWORK of jobs and not "the same, but with".

This is pretty much my last expansion if I even decide to keep the sub going.

Glad to know that all our feedback meant NOTHING.

I don’t know. I might be one of the few who thinks all this bickering on the forums could lead to some attention from devs. After all, this is a subscription-based game.

[AxHell]

I started to feel uneasy back in ShB. In EW I was like "whatever". Now? I'm uncomfortable.

I'll wait and see till we get more news but for now? I am definitely not at ease. Not one bit.